Question

________________ is becoming a common practice of raising clients’ level of function before surgery to assist with their recovery and limit their decline from normal function after the surgery.

A. Rehabilitation
B. Preventative habilitation
C. Pretherapy
D. Prehabilitation

Answer 1

Answer: D Prehabilitation

Explanation: Prehabilitation involves physical exercise as well as but not limited to improvements in nutrition, psychological and social interventions to improve the fitness of people in the period before surgery.

Nutritional advice could be given to help increase body mass if needed , coping mechanisms to deal with anxiety associated with surgery, and support for alcohol or smoking cessation are part of Prehabilitation.